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Regular Expressions with .NET by Dan Appleman and Daniel Appleman - Daniel Appleman List Price: $14.95 Price at Amazon.com: $14.95 Availability: Available for download now Shipping rates and policies

With the release of Visual Studio .NET, a great deal of attention has been placed on the Visual Studio .NET languages, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Managed C++ (not to mention the dozens of others under development by various companies). It might surprise you to know that yet another language is built into Visual Studio - one that can be used in conjunction with VB .NET, C# or any other .NET language. A language that is terse to such a degree that the term "concise" does not come close to describing its brevity of syntax. A language so cryptic that it can take hours to truly understand a single line of code.

Yet it is a language that can save you hours upon hours of time in any application that involves text processing or data validation. It is a language that can perform complex data validation tasks in a single line of code. It is a language that performs sophisticated search and replace operations on strings. It is a language that should be part of every programmer's toolbox.

The language is the "Regular Expression Language" - a language designed to parse and manipulate blocks of text. This ebook is intended to be a complete introduction to Regular Expressions that can even be read and understood by programmers who have never heard of them. It is also intended to help experienced Regular Expression programmers come up to speed quickly on the .NET implementation of Regular Expressions.